Awards

Awards

1. WGS Graduate Student Dissertation Awards are awarded each spring to deserving graduate students who are doing research on a feminist or gender-related topic. This award is designed to encourage WGS scholarship at the graduate level.

2. The Lucia, Jack, and Melissa Gilbert WGS Teaching Excellence Award honors faculty members with an outstanding record of undergraduate and/or graduate teaching in Women's and Gender Studies courses. One award is given each year, alternating between non-tenured faculty members (Assistant Professor or Lecturer) and tenured faculty members (Associate or Full Professor).

3. The Cynthia Walker Peña Scholarship is awarded each spring to a deserving WGS undergraduate who has earned distinction in WGS scholarship and service. Requirements include: (1) six hours of WGS courses; (2) 2-5 page essay on a gender topic; (3) academic standing; and (4) activities in community/campus service.

4. The Lora Romero Memorial Award for Interdisciplinary Research in Race, Ethnicity and Gender is an annual award created in memory of former UT colleague, Lora Romero. One or two awards will be presented each spring, alternating between graduate and undergraduate student recipients. The award will honor and support students working in the area of gender studies and Chicano/a studies. Co-sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies and the Department of English.

5. The Ellen Clarke Temple Graduate Award This award is to provide support for graduate students of Liberal Arts to be used to aid students’ travel, research, and other similar needs in the study of the women in American history, particularly in Texas or the Southwest.